"I see the color of love when I'm thinking of you."
Billy Ocean, "The Colour of Love," 1988
14 October 2024
There are a lot of songs on the color of love, actually.
"If I had to paint a picture to show the world how love can really be / I would use the brightest colors to create a vision of harmony"
"The colors of the rainbow turn gray whenever you're so far away"
"Tell me, what is the color of love? Is it warm, is it tender?"
"And then an angel came out of the blue / And then the angel, the angel in you"
"I know the color of love and it lives inside of you. I know the color of truth, it's in the image of you"
"The color of love is in you"
"The colors of love like a bridge over troubled troubled water"
"It will color your soul like a rainbow (like a rainbow)"
"There must have been an angel by my side / Something heavenly came from above"
"Look at the sky. It's the color of love"
"You wrapped me up in the color of love in the moonlight baby / It must have been an angel come down from above"
"Bleu, bleu, l'amour est bleu / Bleu comme le ciel qui joue dans tes yeux / Comme l'eau"
(Blue, blue, love is blue / Blue like the sky that plays in your eyes / Like water)
"Gris, gris, l'amour est gris"
(Gray, gray, love is gray)
"And the color of your love is gray"
According to my research, love could be the following:
The brightest colors (Billy Ocean)
In you (Boyz II Men)
A rainbow (Billy Ocean, Boyz II Men)
The sky in which an angel appears (Boyz II Men, Sade)
Sky blue or gray (Vicky Leandros)
Gray (The Smashing Pumpkins)
Magenta-cerise (Teruko Sakurai)
20 October 2024
Saccharine
"The colors of spring—pastels mixed with the greens of new grass—are inherently joyful, hopeful, and youthful. [...] Apricot, pale blue, soft greens, and corals are all lovely in interior spaces, but they must be used in the right combination, or the result can be cloying and garish. [...] I don't recommend combining pastels with darker tones, as it takes the joy out of them."
Lori Weitzner, Ode to Color, 2016
"She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, / She wore her greenest gown; / She turned to the south wind / And curtsied up and down. / She turned to the sunlight / And shook her yellow head, / And whispered to her neighbour: / 'Winter is dead.'"
A.A. Milne, "Daffodowndilly," 1924
18 November 2024
Maybe a coat of many colors is the color of love. I write about this more in Color Quotes under Dolly Parton's song "Coat of Many Colors."